WRIC

Virginia Department of Social Services information system is not sustainable, according to State Inspector

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — There are now concerns with services in the Virginia Department of Social Services, including the department’s current information tracking system, according to a recent audit ...
Health Affairs

Untangling The Relationship between Social Service And Health Care Spending And Health Outcomes

Proposals to extend health insurance coverage and improve access to high-quality health care in the US—currently prominent in national policy debates—must find ways to make expansion affordable. Could ...
Star Tribune

Minnesota’s ‘archaic’ technology wastes critical social service caseworker time, counties say

Minnesota county workers and lawmakers have some choice words to describe the state’s 25-year-old information system used to manage child protection cases and social service programs: Slow. Archaic. A ...
Health Affairs

Assessing The Capacity Of Local Social Services Agencies To Respond To Referrals From Health Care Providers

Health care providers are increasingly screening low-income patients for social needs and making referrals to social services agencies to assist in resolving them. A major assumption of this approach ...
The Conversation

AI is being used in social services – but we must make sure it doesn’t traumatise clients

The project was funded by the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab. Suvradip Maitra is funded by an Australian Government Research Training Program Domestic Scholarship. Lyndal Sleep was funded by the ...